"ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY"

Comments to the media by Mariam Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and Environment of the United Arab Emirates, on behalf of Gabon, Malta, Mozambique, and Switzerland; on Climate Change, Peace and Security.

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Its interconnected consequences – intensified extreme weather, rising sea levels, food and water insecurity, biodiversity loss and heightened health risks – jeopardize human life, livelihoods and ecosystems and have an adverse impact on national, regional and global stability.

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Its interconnected consequences – intensified extreme weather, rising sea levels, food and water insecurity, biodiversity loss and heightened health risks – jeopardize human life, livelihoods and ecosystems and have an adverse impact on national, regional and global stability.

The UN Human Rights Office is “deeply troubled by the detention of prominent environmental human rights defender Hoang Thi Minh Hong in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, on Wednesday this week”, spokesperson Marta Hurtado said. UNTV CH

New agenda sets sail with bold action as UN Water Conference closes. UNIFEED

Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, said that water “is the element that connects 90 percent of disasters around the world. And with climate change, it is increasingly difficult for communities to manage water-related disaster risks.” UNIFEED

Ministers of environment and other representatives from over 170 nations convened today (28 Feb) in Nairobi to launch the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5). UNEP

The UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), through its Indonesian military engineering, is executing projects aimed at preventing or reducing negative effects on the environment, in particular pollution of soil and air, and of groundwater in the country. MINUSCA

Taking part in the Biodiversity Summit, Prince Charles, heir to the British throne said he is working with a “coalition of the willing” to put nature, people and planet at the heart of the economy. French President Macron called for “the fight against environmental crime,” while Brazil’s President Bolsonaro “strongly” rejected “international greed" towards Amazon.” UNIFEED

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mohammed Ibn Chambas, said the region “has been shaken by unprecedented violence in recent months,” including last week’s “horrific attack” against the Inates military camp in Niger, which “still haunts the region.” UNIFEED